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|title=The Shanghai Factor

|sort=Shanghai Factor, The

|publisher=Head of Zeus

|date=July 2013

|summary=This is a story of espionage that feels entirely rooted in the real world rather than the fantastic and over the top, it is intelligent, methodical and thoroughly absorbing.

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Our narrator is an American sleeper spy in China whose mission is to improve his Mandarin and attempt to blend as best he can into Shanghai society. A chance meeting results in an intelligent and enigmatic Chinese lover who becomes his perfect teacher even though he is pretty sure she is working for Guoanbu (Chinese Intelligence) and that he is constantly under surveillance. In time he infiltrates known affiliates of the Guoanbu and proves himself very valuable to both the US and Chinese intelligence services, becoming a pawn in a high stakes game of chess between two powerful and paranoid nations.